Viewport Panel

Overview

• The Viewport panel is a “window” into a SEQUOIA Document’s world.

• Each Viewport is associated with exactly one Document, and the Options Menu icon will have the Document Color as background.

• The Active Viewport will draw an outline in the color of its Document.

• Activating a Viewport also activates its Document (in other words, it makes its Document the Active Document).

Viewport Content

• The Viewport panel will display

  • All visible objects in the Active Document according to the Object Display toolbar and Document Explorer Hide/Show settings. See Hiding And Unhiding Objects for details.

  • A Home Grid, if enabled via the Viewport Settings panel or the HUD Display toolbar or Grid Display in Display menu.

  • Home Grid Extents readouts along the two major ground plane axes’ positive and negative directions, if enabled via the Show Units option in the Viewport Settings panel.

  • An Axis Tripod in the lower left corner, representing the orientation of the World Coordinate System’s major axes. See Axis Tripod in Display menu and HUD Display toolbar for visbility controls.

  • An FPS Counter in the bottom right corner, showing the frame rate average of the last 15 frames, or — if Idle. See Display menu and HUD Display toolbar for visbility controls.

  • Orbit, Pan and Zoom icons in the upper right corner. See the Viewport Navigation Icon topic for details.

Creating Viewports

• By default, a single viewport will exist when SEQUOIA is started, representing the default Untitled Document.

• Creating a new Document via File>New or File>Clone will

  • Automatically create a new Viewport to look at the new Document’s content

  • Dock the new Viewport panel as a tab next to the existing Viewport.

  • Activate the new Viewport, making the new Document the Active Document.

• Creating a new Viewport via Panels>VIEWPORT - Create New Panel menu item

  • Will not create a new Document,

  • Will create a new panel docked to the side of the existing Viewport panel.

  • Will set the new Viewport to display the content of the Active Document.

Closing Viewports

• As any other panel, the Viewport Panel can be closed using the icon.

• However, if you try to close the last standing Viewport, a new Viewport will be created as it is not allowed to have zero Viewports.

• If a Document is closed, any Viewport that was associated with the closed Document will remain open, but will switch its content to an existing Document.